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Some Minnesota Vikings news went down on Tuesday after the NFL owners agreed to have 17 games on every team’s 2021 regular-season schedule.
For fans of the Minnesota Vikings that are under the age of 40, the 16-game season is all anyone has ever known.
The NFL switched the amount of regular-season matchups from 14 to 16 in 1978 and it has remained the same ever since. But this came to an end on Tuesday after the league’s owners voted to add a 17th game to each team’s 2021 schedule while also approving the reduction of preseason contests from four to three.